Web Sites

Title:		Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Minority Health Individual Web Sites
Web address:		http://www.ahcpr.gov/research/minorix.htm

Title:		Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Web address:		http://www.apiahf.org/

Title:		Association of American Medical Colleges Medical Education: Community and Minority Programs
Web address:		http://www.aamc.org/meded/minority/start.htm

Title:		Bad Blood: The Troubling Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Web address:		http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical

Title:		Bettering the Health of Minority Americans, The Commonwealth Fund
Web address:		http://www.cmwf.org/programs/minority/index.asp

Title:		Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health : a chartbook
Web address:		http://www.gih.org/usr_doc/49541%2Epdf

Title:		Health Education Brochures in Multiple Languages
Web address:		http://medstat.med.utah.edu/library/refdesk/24lan
Description:		Electronic access to over 200 health education brochures.

Title:		Hispanic Health Beliefs and Practices: Mexican and Mexican-Americans (Clinical Notes)
Web address:		http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/hispanic_hea
Description:		This gateway contains information about the history of immigration; communications; social relations; religion; health beliefs and practices; folk remedies; diet; pregnancies, childbirth, and child rearing; dying and death practices; disease prevention and health promotion; health problems; health risks of immigrants; recommended laboratory tests for immigrants; and helpful links and references.

Title:		Medical Spanish primer : basic medical Spanish
Web address:		http://www.vpha.ufl.edu/ogh/oghpages/medispanish.
Description:		Brief compilation of tabulated Spanish terms of use to health professionals in the field, internationally, or in the course of daily work domestically, along with references to other web sites.

Title:		Minorities in Medical Education : Facts and Figures 2005
Web address:		http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/11427
Description:		Provides detailed racial and ethnic statistical information on medical education in the United States for the 2004 academic year. This report will be of particular interest to individuals involved in efforts to increase diversity in academic medicine, including students, medical educators and administrators, and policy makers.

Title:		NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Web address:		http://www.noah-health.org/
Description:		NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.

Title:		Nursing Tasks in Medical Spanish
Web address:		http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/~orkelm/nurse/nursespa

Title:		Office of Minority Health Health Links
Web address:		http://www.omhrc.gov/OMH/sidebar/healthlinks.htm

Title:		One out of three Latino adolescents overweight or at risk
Web address:		http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/publication
Description:		The Health Policy Fact Sheet describes overweight among Latino adolescents in California based on data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2003). Latino adolescents have the highest prevalence of overweight. Among Latino adolescents, boys and those who are U.S. born are particularly at risk.

Title:		Patient Education Materials Available in Foreign Languages
Web address:		http://www.med.utah.edu/pated/handouts/indexspan.
Description:		Links to Spanish language sites offering patient education handouts.

Title:		Patient Education Resources for Clinicians
Web address:		http://www.ohsu.edu/library/patiented/links.shtml
Description:		Patient education resources for clinicians pertaining to Spanish sites and low-literacy handouts

Title:		Spanish Patient Education Materials Project
Web address:		http://www.med.utah.edu/pated/handouts/indexspan
Description:		Spanish language patient education materials.

Title:		Spiral : selected patient information resources in Asian languages
Web address:		http://spiral.tufts.edu/about.html

Title:		Toolkit for Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Web address:		http://www.awesomelibrary.org/multiculturaltoolkit.html

Title:		US Department of Health and Human Services Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
Web address:		http://raceandhealth.hhs.gov/

Title:		US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health
Web address:		http://www.omhrc.gov/
Description:		OMH advises the Secretary and the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) on public health issues affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, Blacks/African Americans, and Hispanics/Latinos.

Title:		www.onlinenewspapers.com
Web address:		http://www.onlinenewspapers.com
Description:		Thousands of the World's newspapers at your finger tips. Links to newspapers in South America, Central America, and Spain with health related articles.

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